dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) (12/16/85)
Has anyone worked out a script which will make it easy
to turn a gamescore (or partial score) into a picture of
the board? Roughly, I want to take
1. P-K4 P-K4
2. P-KB4 PxP
and have it automatically turned into
/usr/games/chess <<EOF
manual
p-k4
p-k4
p-kb4
pxp
EOF
(Note the extra blank line, which will cause the board to be printed.)
Extra bonus points for ignoring initial irrelevant stuff (a la patch(1)),
so you can, in theory, save mail or news and run it right through the
ChessGameScorePlayer program. Also, an option to put a blank line after
every full move, so that the user can see the board as it develops, would
be nice. This could be done in either sh or C. Make a nice little
assignment for someone who has undergrad students learning programming :-)
Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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